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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Cover of The Handmaid's Tale

Published 1985 by McClelland and Stewart · 324 pages

Nebula Nominee 1987
Science Fiction

Synopsis

In the theocratic Republic of Gilead, formerly the United States, a woman known only as Offred serves as a Handmaid, forced to bear children for the ruling elite in a society that has stripped women of all rights. Through her fragmented memories of a lost world and her harrowing present, she reveals the mechanisms of totalitarian control while secretly clinging to the hope of resistance and reunion with her family.

Classification

Details

Series

The Handmaid's Tale #1

Author Nationality

CA

Adaptation

The Handmaid's Tale (1990, both)

ISBN

9780771008139

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